What is it about the cross that is so compelling? The answer, of course, is love. The idea of a Suffering Messiah who would be rejected, put to death and rise again to prove how much God loves the men and women he created never ceases to fascinate and move us. In daily reflections from Scripture, Fr. Maestri helps us to explore this mystery of our faith. In addition to the meditations there is a brief prayer and a series of questions for personal reflection. In the course of these forty days of Lent, we accompany Jesus from the Mountains of the Beatitudes and the Transfiguration to the hill of Calvary and the cross, to the empty tomb, beyond Easter down the road to Emmaus and out to the four corners of the world as we live each day proclaiming: It is true. He has been raised from the dead. And because He lives, we too can hope to live forever.